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100 1  Roberts, Sophy,|eauthor. 
245 14 The lost pianos of Siberia /|cSophy Roberts. 
250    First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition. 
264  1 New York, NY :|bGrove Press,|c2020. 
264  4 |c©2020 
300    433 pages :|billustrations, maps ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 374-418) and 
       index. 
505 0  Pianomania, 1762-1917. Music in a sleeping land : Sibir; 
       Traces in the snow : Khabarovsk; Siberia is "civilized" : 
       St Petersburg to the Pacific; The Paris of Siberia : 
       Irkutsk; Pianos in a sandy Venice : Kiakhta; The sound of 
       Chopin's Poland ; Tomsk; Home in a hundred years : 
       Sakhalin Island -- Broken chords, 1917-1991. The last 
       Tsar's piano : the Urals ; The end of everything : the 
       Altai Mountains; The Moscow of the East : Harbin; 
       Beethoven in a red chum : the Yamal Peninsula; Music in 
       the Gulag Archipelago : Kolyma; The Siberian Colosseum : 
       Novosibirsk; Vera's Mühlbach : Akademgorodok -- Goodness 
       knows where, 1992-Present day. A game of risk : Kamchatka;
       Siberia's last piano : the commanders to the Kurils; 
       Provenance regained : Khabarovsk -- Epilogue : the Orkhon 
       Valley. 
520    "Siberia's story is traditionally one of exiles, penal 
       colonies, and unmarked graves. Yet there is another tale 
       to tell. Dotted throughout this remote land are pianos--
       grand instruments created during the boom years of the 
       nineteenth century, as well as humble, Soviet-made 
       uprights that found their way into equally modest homes. 
       They tell the story of how, ever since entering Russian 
       culture under the westernizing influence of Catherine the 
       Great, piano music has run through the country like blood.
       How these pianos travelled into this snow-bound wilderness
       in the first place is testament to acts of fortitude by 
       governors, adventurers, and exiles. Siberian pianos have 
       accompanied extraordinary feats, from the instrument that 
       Maria Volkonsky, wife of an exiled Decembrist 
       revolutionary, used to spread music east of the Urals, to 
       those that brought reprieve to the Soviet Gulag. That 
       these instruments might still exist in such a hostile 
       landscape is remarkable. That they are still capable of 
       making music in far-flung villages is nothing less than a 
       miracle. The Lost Pianos of Siberia is largely a story of 
       music in this fascinating place, following Roberts on a 
       three-year adventure as she tracks a number of different 
       instruments to find one whose history is definitively 
       Siberian. Her journey reveals a desolate land inhabited by
       wild tigers and deeply shaped by its dark history, yet one
       that is also profoundly beautiful-and peppered with 
       pianos"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 Piano|zRussia (Federation)|zSiberia|xHistory. 
650  7 Intellectual life.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00975769 
650  7 Manners and customs.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01007815 
650  7 Piano.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01063355 
650  7 Travel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01155558 
651  0 Siberia (Russia)|xIntellectual life. 
651  0 Siberia (Russia)|xSocial life and customs. 
651  0 Siberia (Russia)|xHistory. 
651  0 Siberia (Russia)|xDescription and travel. 
651  7 Russia (Federation)|zSiberia.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01243666 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
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